Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) has announced the publication of its latest Market Landscape Report, Big Data Analytics Platforms, referencing 20 vendors including Cloudera, EMC Greenplum, and Oracle Corporation. The report, authored by ESG Vice President and Senior Analyst Julie Lockner, acknowledges the shift in business requirements that are driving market adoption of a new class of data analytics platforms designed to handle big data volumes. She categorizes the various vendors’ solutions, provides purchasing guidelines, and reviews the considerations that organizations should take before making an investment in a big data analytics platform.
As more information becomes available to a business via new data sources (such as social networks, sensor data, and machine-generated log data), organizations with positive analytics experiences want to extend that success across their enterprises in a predictive, real-time manner. The result is an increasing priority on data analytics activities and, subsequently, more pressure on business-analyst and IT teams to deliver results.
“Businesses are generating more-demanding workloads for their current data analytics platforms and are starting to see these traditional architectures burst at the seams,” said Lockner. “With advancements in platforms based on distributed computing (i.e., the Apache Software Foundation’s Hadoop) and massively parallel processing (MPP) analytical databases, IT organizations have more scalable options to meet their business’s big data analytics needs while controlling costs. This report provides an overview and comparison of the options in the market and can serve as a starting point when evaluating reference architectures.”
ESG Research shows that data analytics is among today’s top five IT priorities. Yet analytics projects are plagued with challenges associated with larger data volumes, more variety and sources of data, and shorter windows to complete analytics exercises. With traditional data center technologies plateauing in their ability to scale without a major financial investment or a forklift upgrade, organizations are considering their options and are assessing emerging platforms designed to take on big data volumes. This Market Landscape Report focuses on the emerging platforms that have been validated in the market to address “Big Data Analytics” challenges.
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